A recent study by the University of Kentucky’s College of Public Health concludes that the lack of safety restraint is the main factor in injury severity to truck drivers and passengers in commercial ...

As WHD outlined in its letter, employers must pay workers a minimum wage for all compensable hours to comply with FLSA, but the issue of "waiting time" makes determining whether to pay workers ...

A Massachusetts-based one-truck hotshot carrier is petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to be allowed to install a sleeper berth in the bed area of his Ford F-350 pickup truck.

The Department of Labor has issued new guidance on compensating truck drivers for time spent in sleeper berths while off-duty. The upshot is DOL now holds that drivers need not be compensated for any ...

Trump administration is once again looking into making some adjustments to truck drivers, sleeper birth times. Hey everybody. Welcome back. I'm Jason Cannon, and my co-host is Matt Cole. F-M-C-S-A ...

Veteran owner-operator truck driver Gary Buchs says that splitting sleeper berth time might have some advantages, but frankly he finds it pretty darn confusing. “I use the 8/2 split a lot,” Buchs said ...

How might truckers get back a measure of flexibility in the hours of service rules, such as that enjoyed by so many owner-operators of past generations? Namely, I'm referring there to the ability to ...

A 2019 Department of Labor Opinion Letter clarifying whether truck drivers must be paid for time in the sleeper berth has been withdrawn by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division under the Biden ...

The American Trucking Assns. and Minnesota Trucking Assn. have asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to conduct a pilot program to study increased flexibility in sleeper berth use by ...

In a lawsuit between a trucking company and its former employees, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered whether the downtime truck drivers spend in between driving shifts is ...